More covered with hair or having more hair than something else; the comparative form of hairy.
From Old English 'hær' (hair) + '-y' (adjective suffix) + '-er' (comparative suffix). The comparative '-er' comes from Proto-Germanic origins.
Comparative adjectives like 'hairier' show how English allows us to stack multiple suffixes—we take 'hair,' add '-y' to make it an adjective, then add '-er' to compare it, all in one word!
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